🚨 PITCH FOR YOUR LIFE! 🚨 Welcome to Fever Pitch, the "techno-entrepreneurial thriller" that critics call a gripping, must-read "page-turner" and an "insightful guide of tremendous importance." It’s a hilarious send-up 😂 of the tech world that somehow manages to be deadly serious at the same time.
Meet Dr. Mark Edmond, a Harvard PhD 🎓 and CEO of Polygon Synthetic Technologies, a microchemistry startup struggling to secure funding. Mark's life is already intense: his company faces collapse, his finances are ruined 💸, and his family situation is tenuous. But the stakes explode when a minor neighborhood quarrel lands him in the crosshairs of organized crime boss Vinny Pellili 🔫.
Mark is thrown into "nonstop motion" as escalating threats demand $100,000. He is forced to confront the "life-or-death pressure of fundraising" in the most literal way possible, culminating in a terrifying phone call where a deep voice orders: "Eliminate him." 😱
Imprisoned and alone, Mark must transform in less than 48 hours. He realizes that intense pressure "causes transformation." Facing death, he rediscovers foundational entrepreneurial strategy 🧠, including the Guy Kawasaki 10/20/30 rule. In an epiphany while scribbling on a jail cell wall ⛓️, Mark finally grasps the necessary narrative structure: the H-E-A-R-T of the pitch.
Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann praises the book for its "eminently sensible prescription" for founders, wrapped in a story that perfectly captures today's "over-the-top world where innovation, imagination, and sometimes just sheer lunacy collide."
Tune in to discover how mastering a seven-minute presentation saved Mark’s life and landed him a million-dollar investment. Forget Sand Hill Road—learn how to avoid sleeping with the fishes if your pitch falls flat! 🚀🔬
